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Subsidized Stupidity

Posted on | January 3, 2013 | 15 Comments

Woman tries to buy iPad with her food stamp EBT card:

Weekly Vice via Fox Nation:

Tracy Browning, a 38-year-old Louisville woman, was jailed after she allegedly tried to purchase several iPads with a food stamp card, then fled to another location where she tried to make the same transaction.
According to Louisville police, Browning went to the Valley Station Walmart and tried to purchase two iPads with an Electronic Benefit Transfer card. When the transaction was denied, she assaulted a store clerk, pushed another employee to the ground and fled from the store with the merchandise.
Investigators say Browning went to another Walmart in the area a short time later and again attempted to buy several iPads with an EBT card. She was apprehended at the scene while attempting to flee with the merchandise.

We’re subsidizing stupidity and, as everyone who has studied economics knows, when you subsidize something, you get more of it.

Category: Crime

Comments

15 Responses to “Subsidized Stupidity”

  1. RMHBiscuit
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 7:16 am

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Subsidized Stupidity http://t.co/rOBhCoxB #TCOT

  2. Joan Of Argghh!
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 7:31 am

    Every farmer knows that if you feed something it grows. If you starve it, it dies.

  3. AnthonyAbides
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 7:54 am

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Subsidized Stupidity http://t.co/rOBhCoxB #TCOT

  4. scarymatt
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 8:24 am

    Except when you try to Starve the Beast. That never seems to work. Nothing seems to work.

  5. Joan Of Argghh!
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 8:25 am

    We’ve never really tried, actually. Just lip service.

  6. Will Profit
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 8:40 am

    What a bitch. She should have stuck to buying the basic necessities that an EBT card is intended, such as beer and cigarettes.

  7. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 9:22 am

    This story made me think of this scene…

  8. McGehee
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 9:33 am

    The Beast always claims it’s being starved when its daily ration isn’t increased steadily.

  9. scarymatt
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 9:35 am

    Where can I sign up for baseline dining?

  10. Charles
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 10:05 am

    She just wanted her Electronic Benefits.

  11. jsn2
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 11:19 am

    Obama money encourages Eating, Breeding & Transmogrification. Hence the initials.

  12. Rob Crawford
    January 3rd, 2013 @ 11:56 am

    “When the transaction was denied, she assaulted a store clerk, pushed another employee to the ground and fled from the store with the merchandise.”

    Assault, battery, and likely felony-level theft. Someone should have shot her.

  13. DYSPEPSIA GENERATION » Blog Archive » Woman Tries to Buy iPad With Her Food Stamp EBT Card
    January 4th, 2013 @ 7:00 am

    […] The Other McCain is on the case.  According to Louisville police, Browning went to the Valley Station Walmart and tried to purchase two iPads with an Electronic Benefit Transfer card. When the transaction was denied, she assaulted a store clerk, pushed another employee to the ground and fled from the store with the merchandise. […]

  14. Da Tech Guy's Blog » Blog Archive The Wrong Kennedy » Da Tech Guy's Blog
    January 4th, 2013 @ 8:27 am

    […] long before some electronics store sells an iPAD for $5 and snacks for $600 or till a Wal-Mart lobbies the government to allow that EBT card to pay for […]

  15. Veritas
    January 4th, 2013 @ 7:19 pm

    What does this say about that segment of our population that demonizes any reduction in this welfare give away?
    Wake up America.